Rosamund Pike credited as playing...
Jane Bennet
- Elizabeth Bennet: Now if every man in the room does not end the evening in love with you then I am no judge of beauty.
- Jane Bennet: [giggles] Or men.
- Elizabeth Bennet: [laughs brightly] No, they are far too easy to judge.
- Jane Bennet: They're not all bad.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Humorless poppycocks, in my limited experience.
- Jane Bennet: One of these days, Lizzy, someone will catch your eye and then you'll have to watch your tongue.
- Mrs. Bennet: But she doesn't like him. I thought she didn't like him.
- Jane Bennet: So did I, so did we all. We must have been wrong.
- Mrs. Bennet: Wouldn't be the first time, will it?
- Jane Bennet: No, nor the last I dare say.
- Jane Bennet: Oh, Lizzy, if I could but see you happy. If there were such another man for you.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Perhaps Mr. Collins has a cousin.
- [They both laugh]
- Jane Bennet: Mr. Bingley is just what a young man ought to be. Sensible, good humour...
- Elizabeth Bennet: Handsome, conveniently rich.
- Jane Bennet: You know perfectly well that I do not believe that marriage should be driven by thoughts of money!
- Jane Bennet: How do you like it here in Hertfordshire, Mr. Bingley?
- Mr. Bingley: Very much.
- Elizabeth Bennet: The library at Netherfield, I've heard, is one of the finest in the country.
- Mr. Bingley: Yes, fills me with guilt. Not a very good reader, you see. Prefer being out of doors. Oh, I mean I can read, of course. And I'm not suggesting you can't read out of doors, of course. Um...
- Jane Bennet: I wish I read more but there always seems to be so many other things to do.
- Mr. Bingley: Yes, that's exactly what I meant!
- Jane Bennet: Do you really believe he liked me, Lizzie?
- Elizabeth Bennet: Jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you for the rest of it. But I give you leave to like him. You've liked great deal a stupider person. You're a great deal too apt to like people in general, you know. All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.
- Jane Bennet: Not his friend! I still can't believe what he said about you.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Mr. Darcy? I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. But no matter. I doubt we shall ever speak again.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Kitty! Lydi! What have I told you about listening at the door!
- Lydia Bennet: Shh! Nevermind that! It's Mr. Bingley, right from the North!
- [Kitty is incoherent]
- Lydia Bennet: Five thousand a year!
- Elizabeth Bennet: Really?
- Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet: [in unison] He's single!
- Jane Bennet: Who's single?
- Elizabeth Bennet: A Mr. Bingley, apparently.
- Kitty Bennet: Shh!
- Mr. Bingley: Your friend, Miss Lucas, is a most amusing young woman.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Oh, yes, I adore her!
- Mrs. Bennet: It is a pity she's not more handsome.
- Elizabeth Bennet: Mama!
- Mrs. Bennet: Oh, but Lizzie would never admit that she's plain. Of course, it's my Jane that's considered the beauty of the county.
- Jane Bennet: No, Mama, please...
- Mrs. Bennet: When she was only fifteen there was a gentleman that was so much in love with her that I was sure he would make her an offer. However, he did write her some very pretty verses.